Re: [Distutils] The Python Packaging Ecosystem (of Nick) Support for other programming languages

On 7 April 2017 at 15:26, Thomas Güttler wrote: > Why is having blue sky ideas rude? AFAIK the word "rude" means "offensively > impolite or bad-mannered." Ideas are easy to come by - we have no shortage of them. What's difficult to come by is the time and energy

Re: [Distutils] CentOS5 is EOL, impact on manylinux1?

On 7 April 2017 at 06:32, Nathaniel Smith wrote: > On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 2:37 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: >> And as it turns out, not only are we able to get bare metal machines >> to run our VMs on (rather than messing about with nested virt >> support), but the

[Distutils] Idea: Using Trove classifiers for platform compatibility warnings

PyPI already has a reasonably extensive component tagging system in https://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=list_classifiers but we don't really *use* it all that much for programmatic purposes. That means the incentives for setting tags correctly are weak, since there isn't much pay-off in the

Re: [Distutils] Which commercial vendor?

On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 4:58 PM, Chris Barker wrote: > On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 5:34 PM, Wes Turner wrote: > > >> Chances are, there will be a package or two that you rely on that is not >>> in conda defaults (maintained by Continuum) or currently in

Re: [Distutils] Which commercial vendor?

On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 5:34 PM, Wes Turner wrote: > Chances are, there will be a package or two that you rely on that is not >> in conda defaults (maintained by Continuum) or currently in conda-forge. So >> you can pip-install those few -- but what if they aren't on PyPi